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After five years living money free I dedicate my time to workshops to achieve autarky and practical post scarcity.
Currently I build biomeiler (chip piles) for heating and develop small scale digestion systems usable in flats or gardens to produce methane for cooking, heating and electricity. Additionally I am contributing to classes on thepublicschool.org like self-sufficiency & off the grid living and open source hardware & permaculture.

If you have questions or feel to support the process don't hesitate to drop me a message or contact me securely.

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live and learn

permanent learning notebook for self organizational empowerment

green your hardware!

you want to be mobile, have access to internet everywhere and like open hardware? read further.

IT = green?

The Story of Waste by makeITfair shows how our "recycled" electronics, dropped at the shops is shipped to Ghana and burned by childred to sell contained metals

"Our goal is to improve the lives of workers around the globe who are working long hours for poor pay to satisfy our constant demands for the latest electronic gadgets."
makeITfair - reports . summaries . leaflets . action

EPEAT - a rating resource for greener electronics by the Green Electronics Council, See also Green Computing (Wikipedia)

about the CO₂ calculations of greendecisions.com, example for tablets

Environmental Impact and power consumption of the OLPC

build your own and get off-grid

Appropriate Technologies for a sustainable future

energy consumption

tweet-a-watt - track-your-power construction kit

Produce the electricity you use on your own with pedal technology or with a solar panel powering your batteries: 16000 mAh Multi-Purpose Solar Charger and Battery (ebay).

build your own geiger counter to raise consciousness about nuclear power

more on DIY energy production (OSE)

mobile communication

OpenMoko - an open hardware telephone
- 2nd generation: GTA02/Freerunner (200 €)
- 4th generation: GTA04 for xmas on the list:

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
from the GTA04 project
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2011 11:05:11 +0100
From: Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller 
To: List for Openmoko community discussion 

We did see a lot of progress this year in the
GTA04 project towards a new open handheld
mobile platform running free&open software
and trying to respect as many freedoms of the
user as possible.

We have seen the delivery of the first batch
of the Early Adopter boards (GTA04A3) and
several members of this community have greatly
improved on the kernel and user space applications.

Thanks to those brave guys!

On the hardware side the first GTA04A4 board
has been produced and tested yesterday.

After fixing three minor hardware issues and some
issues in kernel, U-Boot and MLO/X-Loader [1]
it appears that everything now works as expected!

Production rampup will continue in the first week
of January so that it will soon become possible to
deliver from stock. And, we have now a closer
cooperation with OpenPandora so that we will find
synergies in software, hardware and production.

For the group tour we already have reached 12%
subscription and you have to hurry a little since the
first early booking rebate will be sold out soon.

So here is the new "baby": GTA04A4!

platines and kits

freeduino - Arduino microcontroller
Beagleboard - Deutschland

fabrication

thingiverse - digital designs for RepRap/UltiMachine
- start with a makerbot

ladyada - Projects and Plans
- Minty Boost - Small battery-powered USB charger
- Breadboard supply - A very low dropout adjustable power supply

more on open hardware
more on 'Sustainable Information and Communication Technologies'

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